Adieu to you

I want to take this time to thank you, the readers of the blog, for your insightful and interesting comments, and for taking the time to read my latest take on this literally gut-wrenching ailment.

I also want to thank the best Web content editor I’ve ever worked with, Natalie, for all her help in keeping me from embarrassing myself, and for doing what great editors do best; making decent copy become great copy.

And I can’t forget to thank Andrew Schorr, the founder of HealthTalk (whom I’ve interviewed twice), for creating HealthTalk and making the Web site so accessible and necessary for those seeking advice on living with chronic disease.

I hate to use the cliché phrase, “I’ve learned so much from you all,” but it is true that I have learned a great deal from the HealthTalk community and from the experience of writing a blog twice a week. I got into the practice of writing a weekly column while at the Mercer Island Reporter. And after I left in 2005, I got out of the habit of writing several articles a week. This opportunity to write personal experience articles kept my skills sharp and my status as an ink-stained wretch intact. Plus, being a presence in the “blogosphere” is an amazing experience, as you hear from people you never knew existed, people you knew when you were a teenager and relatives that you hoped not to hear from ever again.

I’ve read the stories of other Crohn’s sufferers who are dealing with symptoms that make my plight seem like a walk in the park, and I’ve read the blogs of people with diseases that are frightening, and who display an inordinant amount of courage in just living day to day with pain and serious health problems. The grace of living for weeks without pain has been mine since finding a doctor who could diagnose my Crohn’s and prescribe medications that work for me. I wish that grace for all my fellow Crohn’s sufferers.

My wish for 2007 is that I can exercise regularly and become stronger as I gain muscle mass, and that the Canadian research scientists who’ve discovered a way to cure diabetes in mice will discover a way to cure Crohn’s in mice and, eventually, humans.

I hope I’ve been able to entertain, inform and amuse you in the past three months, because I have had a great time being the Crohn’s blogger.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DeAnn Rossetti

DeAnn is an Iowa native and award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in print and on the Web. She currently resides in Maple Valley, Wash. with her husband and 7-year-old son, Nicholas. DeAnn was...read more